C. S. Lewis Quotes
God descends to re-ascend. He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity ... down to the very roots and sea-bed of the nature He has created. But He goes down to come up again and bring the ruined world up with Him.
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I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.
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Reconciliation is a decision that you take in your heart.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
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Location is the sole difference between mobile and traditional Web.
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I can't even say what my greatest fear is because I, I can't even imagine. Being without my family... I can't even say it because it makes me cry.
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He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.
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They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
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Terrorism cannot be isolated from its political, historical, and even social context.
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I'm lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa, so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there, near my family, my kids, also the real estate business I run with my wife.
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I love acting, but I'm not too crazy about money or fame. They don't drive me.
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I'm one of the people that, when I hear Republicans talk about repealing Obamacare, I just want to roll my eyes. Republicans talk about reform to the healthcare, and they talk about selling insurance across state lines, and that's their solution?
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'Power' has definitely been an immense stepping stone for me. It's opened up doors that I could only have dreamed of.
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I believe in leavening. You can't have words sticking out too much, like promontories. They disturb the density. You have to flatten them, or raise the surrounding terrain.
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Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.
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A straight fight in an equal battle takes some bravery, but braver is he who, knowing that he would have to sacrifice ninety-five as against five of the enemy, faces death.
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God descends to re-ascend. He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity ... down to the very roots and sea-bed of the nature He has created. But He goes down to come up again and bring the ruined world up with Him.
